With 26 aerial victories, Eddie Rickenbacker survived the war as America's "Ace of Aces." The former race car driver's 7 awards of the Distinguished Service Cross (an eighth was upgraded to the Medal o...

Heinrich Rickenbacher signed a claim for 1600 pounds for repair of the Fort in Orangeburgh on Jan 7, 1780. By November 11, 1781, his wife Ann was providing supplies to the militia in her own name, an i...

According to a family record that has come down from his granddaughter Julia Margaret Zeigler Hartzog (dated Dec. 1928, typed on onionskin paper):
"Grandfather and grandmother Rickenbacker [Samuel Ri...